Wateb-wheel



T. ROSE. WATER WHEEL.

No. 1,376. Patented Oct. 18, 1889,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TIMOTHYROSE, OF WINDSOR, NEW YORK.

WATER-WHEEL.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 1,376, dated October 18, 1889.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, TIMOTHY Ross, of Windsor,in the county of Broome and State of New York, have invented anImprovement in the Manner of Constructing the Reaction WVater-Vheel; andI do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact descriptionthereof.

The reaction wheelupon which my im provement is made, is of that kind inwhich the water admitted on one face of the wheel, is discharged on itsperiphery, through a series of openings between the overlapping, coveredbuckets which form that periphery, and from which the water escapes in adirection which is nearly a tangent thereto. It has been the practicehitherto to make the rim that forms the face of such wheels, and theplate that constitutes its back, bottom, or closed end, of the samediameter with each other, the buckets standing vertically from saidbottom, or back.

In my improved wheel, I make the rim which constitutes the face of thewheel, and to which one edge of the buckets is attached, four, five, orsix inches more in diameter than the back, or lower plate, so that thebuckets as they rise from the back toward the rim, will form an obtuseangle therewith, and the diameter of the face of the wheel at which thewater enters, shall consequently expose a larger area for. itsadmission, than when made in the ordinary manner.

Figure 1, in the accompanying drawing, is a top view of my improvedwheel, A, A, being the rim which constitutes its face, and B, B, theplate forming the back, or bottom, perforated at G, to receive theshaft. D, D, are the buckets, a, a, a, being I the outlets for water.

of the rim is scalloped out to the curve of The interior edge thebucket, in order to give to the water from the penstock. unobstructedadmission to the outlets, thereby preventing that whirling motion frombeing given to the water which is consequent upon its having to make ashort turn over the rim when not so cut away. The buckets rise from theback, or bottom plate, at, or near, its periphery, but they meet the rimforming the face at the distance of an inch and a half, more or less,from its periphery, in order that it may have sufficient width tooperate against the deck, or stop water.

Fig. 2, is a side View of my wheel, exhibiting, distinctly, the slope,or cone-like direction, of the buckets.

I have experimentally proved that the power of such a wheel is muchincreased by giving to it this form, which allows a more free entranceof the Water, in proportion to the quantity discharged, than is allowedupon the ordinary mode of con struction.

I, usually, make my wheel of cast-iron, and it is, in all respects, tobe combined and used in the same way with the ordinary wheels, beinglike them employed either singly, or in pairs; vertically, orhorizontally.

WVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

The making the buckets of my wheel to flare out from the back, or bottomplate, to the rim, or face, so as to enlarge the opening of the latter,in the manner set forth.

TIMOTHY ROSE. Witnesses:

JOHN H. SMITH,

ALBERT STONE.

